Introduction

In recognition of the serious and persistent nature of the rural
fuel poverty problem, the Scottish Government set up an independent
and broadly-based*
Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force in August 2015. Its
remit was: to develop a set of
SMART
actions which a) would make it significantly easier for people
living in rural and remote Scotland to keep their homes warm and b)
which can be fed into the further development of fuel poverty and
energy efficiency programmes and also to c) consider issues across
all sectors and tenures and d) publish an action paper by September
2016